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Explaining why a code's modifier should also be its committer [closed]
The context of this question is the early stage of introducing a VCS into an academic setting consisting of non-SW-engineers, largely unaware of modern best practices related to coding as a team. At ...
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What is a good method/practice I can employ to keep identical code snippits in two places in sync? Also, help documenting functionals
If I could get some input on the design of this, I would be grateful as well. Note that I'm programming in python. There's a function F that takes lots of data, runs some analysis on it (taking ...
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Where to keep Ansible Inventory file
I keep my Ansible based deployment module in the same repository/directory as my application code. I use Mercurial for my VCS. The inventories file is ephemeral as the IP's of the cloud hosts keep on ...
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SVN / Git How to administer branches
I'm the technical lead for a small company (6 developers). We currently use SVN and we're slowly porting over to Git, after everyone gets their training. Currently our clients are the ones who "pull ...
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How should "useful throwaway" scripts be handled?
You know how it goes: there is some small repetitive task for which you found a way to quickly automate 95% of the work. You create a script, run it, manually fix the output, and you're done. Of ...
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What is structure of versioning process?
How should be represents process of versioning in developer team? Suppose that we have CI system, and we want start versioning our software. If we speak about semver, then major and minor version must ...
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AngularJS-style commit type for a version bump
The AngularJS commit message format is a set of rules for how to your commit message should look. It has been adopted by AngularJS and other projects. According to these rules, a commit must be ...
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Is it a good practice to split one commit into two, where one is content change, the other is style(indent) change?
Suppose I am to make a commit that wrapped a section of code inside another thing, so the section came to have 1 more level of indent. In diff it will show delete 100 lines, add 100 lines though all ...
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How do I organizing 2 different projects with shared code
I know there have been same question asked multiple times on the programmers stackexchange. I think my question is more specific and hence decided to start a new question. My current a project which ...
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1answer
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Using conditional feature compilation/inclusion for release versioning
I have been playing with the following idea: commonly when different release series (1.0.x, 1.1.x, development code) of a product are maintained in parallel one uses different branches within a ...
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Is it a newbie mistake to avoid branching? [duplicate]
My team is new to versioning and we're trying to keep things simple, as to not overwhelm ourselves with tools-headaches. Also, our product can't be compiled and run locally, so our work is actually ...
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Proper sequence of actions for merging using SVN?
I'm totally new to CVCS (SVN specifically). I find that most resources focus very strongly on the command-line commands (irrelevant; we use Windows Explorer + TortoiseSVN) and about structure (e.g. ...
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Develop in trunk and then branch off, or in release branch and then merge back? [duplicate]
Say that we've decided on following a "release-based" branching strategy, so we'll have a branch for each release, and we can add maintenance updates as sub-branches from those. Does it matter ...
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What to do with a long unfinished project? [closed]
I am a programmer hobbyist (self learnt), and once in a while I like to make games and interactive scripts (nowadays mostly in JavaScript for its ease). Sometimes I start long projects that end up ...
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Automatically propagating changes
When working on multiple similar projects there are often changes that can't be extracted into a library, but should be applied to most of the projects. I mean changes like a modified directory ...
